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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics) 4 reviews
Henrik Ibsen
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
A translation to beat all others
+ Masterful Ibsen
+ old but still good
+ Four classic plays from Ibsen
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Borges: Collected Fictions 67 reviews
Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
A book you and your doppelganger will both enjoy
+ Intelligent fiction - makes you think
+ The path you are to take is endless...
+ The Greatest Collection
+ Amazing deal
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To the Lighthouse 168 reviews
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)
Harvest Books, 1989
An insightful, sensitive reading.
+ Time Passes
+ Brilliant Experimental Novel
+ To The LighthouseA beautif
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Collected Poems 1947-19976 reviews
Allen Ginsberg
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
Poetry Five Stars, of Course but...
+ Allen Ginsberg was a genius...
+ Deep, Thought Provoking, and Real
+ An American Classic
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Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings8 reviews
Antonin Artaud
University of California Press, 1988
The theatre, life and writings of a brilliant lunatic
+ Tome essential to all theatre artists
+ Artaud: what and where and how were you thinking?
+ Full of Sympathy for Van Gogh
+ Essential!
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The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics)2 reviews
Joseph Conrad
Penguin Classics, 2007
Two Book Length Novels, Three Long Tales, Six Short Stories
+ Classic Short Fiction
I was amazed to see that I am the first to review this classic book. I borrowed this book and brought it with me to read while helping deliver a yacht. The trip was a memorable one, for many reasons, not least among them was finishing "The Nigger in the Narcissus" a story of a dying black man's ...
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In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)18 reviews
Marcel Proust
Modern Library, 2003
The most important literary work of the 20th century
+ you will never view life the same again
+ Mimesis of Man's Minutes, Memory and More
+ Review Proust? You are kidding right?
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The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Centennial Edition)11 reviews
Hart Crane
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2001
Whispers antiphonal in azure swing...
+ A Reading of "Stark Major"
+ In the Tradition
+ Kiss of our agony
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The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)341 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Penguin Classics, 2001
A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE
+ "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem);
+ seductive masterpiece
+ The Devil Went Down to Moscow
+ READ THIS!
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Women in Love / Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)49 reviews
D. H. Lawrence
Penguin Classics, 2007
Women in Love: A Classic Novel by the first Freudian novelists who plumbed the human id
+ classic study of relationships
+ Still shocking as a work of literature
+ The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters.
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Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition3 reviews
Dylan Thomas
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003
Dylan's greatness as a poet A power of feeling and music all his own
+ the Walt Whitman of Wales
+ Words Well Written
The greatness of Dylan Thomas is in his music and voice, a powerful rolling seasound. It is too in that whole mysteriously rich vocabulary, that unique diction of his own a diction which like that of Hopkins , and Dickinson seems to strike us as wholly original.
The greatness of Thomas is too in ...
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The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)13 reviews
Robert Musil
Penguin Classics, 2001
intellectual exploration of latent sadomasochism
+ A pleasant surprise: beauty and friendship in modern times.
+ An Austrian "Lord of the Flies"
+ A glimpse into adolescent angst, Viennese style
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Invisible Cities87 reviews
Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1978
Incredible Story Teller
+ Reads like poetry
+ Wonderfully Borgesian, with a regrettable dash of Gibran
+ Unique and thought provoking
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Nadja12 reviews
Andre Breton
Grove Press, 1994
Reread in the 21st Century. . . .
+ Haunting
+ Breton's Surrealist love story
This was my second reading of Nadja. The first time, I read it looking for fiction inspired by cities. I expected, and found, a story about Paris. The narrator's mad desire for Nadja who is herself quite mad is punctuated by the thoroughly plain unpeopled photographs of the city. Breton's ...
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Selected Tales (Penguin Classics)3 reviews
Henry James
Penguin Classics, 2001
If you're cruising for gay Henry, this is the place to go...
+ Brilliant but dense
+ The master at work
This great selection of James's tales includes several of his widely-anthologized and well-known stories as well as the brilliant but little-known novella "In The Cage." Perhaps more interestingly, readers searching for the James stories that Gay Studies scholars are always referencing will also ...
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The Portable Arthur Miller (Penguin Classics)3 reviews
Arthur Miller
Penguin Classics, 2003
Good Compendium of Miller's works
+ EVERYTHING
+ This is the One!
I wanted to read Death of a Salesman. While searching I found this book which has 5 of Miller's plays (including his famous ones, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible) and a few other little works of his. This is a great bargain, considering that a single play by Miller is about $9.00 and this is ...
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Collected Poems2 reviews
Ted Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
A huge, landmark collection from a major poet
+ A Collection to Collect
This enormous (1300+ pages) collection of Ted Hughes's poetry should cement his reputation as one of the two truly major British poets of the second half of the twentieth century. (The other being the much less prolific Philip Larkin.) This single volume collects ALL of Hughes's published poetry, ...
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The Rings of Saturn41 reviews
W.G. Sebald
New Directions, 1999
The night of time far surpasseth the day and who knows when was the Aequinox?
+ A book of digressions and odd tangents
+ A Curious Journey
+ The Archaeology of Loss
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Colossus of Maroussi30 reviews
Henry Miller
New Directions, 1975
New Directions called this a Travel Book, it's not, it's an EPIC...redeeming, uplifting and poetry in motion.
+ AMONG MILLER'S BEST WORKS!!! A MUST READ!!!
+ An inner journey through Greece
+ Love it or hate it: it's a good book
+ What a writer
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Our Lady of the Flowers11 reviews
Jean Genet
Grove Press, 1994
like a narcotic!
+ fantastic, but not for everyone
+ A Most Beautiful Song of the Imagination
+ "Crime Begins With A Carelessly Worn Beret"
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